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How human expertise and AI can support vector-borne disease control

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As climate change, urban growth and human movement reshape the world around us, the diseases carried by mosquitoes are changing too. Malaria, dengue and other mosquito-borne illnesses are appearing in new places, putting more communities at risk than ever before. A new Perspective paper in Environmental Change and Disease Dynamics and co-authored by WorldPop visitor […]

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Turning Population Counts into High-Resolution Maps with pyDasymetric

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Creating accurate population maps often starts with a challenge: population data are typically reported for administrative areas, but decisions need to be made at a much finer scale. To help bridge that gap, we have released pyDasymetric, a free, open-source Python package that makes it easier to redistribute population counts into high-resolution gridded population datasets

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New detailed maps reveal where children are missing out on vaccines

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New research recently published in Vaccines maps childhood vaccination gaps across the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in far greater detail than before. Led by WorldPop researcher KS Krishnaveni, the study reveals important local variations in vaccination coverage across the DRC, providing precise, location-specific information to help immunisation programme managers and policymakers identify coverage

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Discover the People Behind the Numbers at the British Science Festival

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📍 Where: Centenary Building, Room 4013, Highfield Campus, SO17 1BJ📅 When: Thursday 17 September 2026, 10:00am to 3:00pm🎟️ Booking: No booking required. Just drop in anytime during the day and stay for as long as you’d like. Ever wondered how we know where people live, how cities grow, or how populations change over time? Next

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New High-Resolution Mapping Reveals Where Malaria Persists in Senegal 

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Répondez à notre enquête de satisfaction et contribuez à façonner la suite Researchers have developed a powerful new way to track malaria with pinpoint accuracy, providing a vital tool for health officials to save lives in low- and middle-income countries. An international team, including WorldPop’s Dr Chris Nnanatu, has created high-resolution maps that reveal the

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New Geospatial Mapping Tool Transforms Humanitarian Planning

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Répondez à notre enquête de satisfaction et contribuez à façonner la suite WorldPop researchers have recently launched a high-resolution data system that harmonises fragmented displacement records to improve humanitarian aid in Nigeria and Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). This contemporary dataset allows decision-makers to track the movement of millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and returnees with unprecedented

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Global Experts Unite to Innovate Forced Displacement Mapping for Humanitarian Aid

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Répondez à notre enquête de satisfaction et contribuez à façonner la suite WorldPop recently convened a specialised international team to transform how the world tracks and responds to forced displacement. Experts from UNHCR, IOM, UNICEF, IDMC, FCDO, the IDMC and leading global universities including University of Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool and Bristol gathered at the University

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WorldPop Open population data supports humanitarian response after Venezuela earthquakes

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Répondez à notre enquête de satisfaction et contribuez à façonner la suite When two powerful earthquakes struck near Yumare, Venezuela, on 24 June, humanitarian responders needed to understand quickly how many people had been affected and where support would be needed most. Open population data from WorldPop helped provide those critical early insights.  The earthquakes, measuring magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 just

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New Disease Mapping Identifies COVID-19 Hotspots in Dakar to Guide Public Health Interventions

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A new study by an international team of researchers has successfully mapped the neighbourhood-level spread of COVID-19 in Dakar, Senegal, revealing that high-density residential areas in the city’s west face the greatest risk of infection. The research, led by WorldPop Research Fellow, Dr Assane Gadiaga at the University of Southampton

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WorldPop Showcases Data-Driven Solutions to Global Health Challenges at GEOMED 2026

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, WorldPop researchers demonstrated how advanced geospatial mapping and machine learning can solve critical global health challenges, from tracking viral tourism trends to reaching “zero-dose” children. Presenting at the GEOMED 2026 conference at the Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain, Dr Edson Utazi, Krishnaveni KS

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About Us

The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.

Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.

WorldPop develops and publishes open, high-resolution population datasets to support social, economic, and environmental development, humanitarian response, and the Sustainable Development Goals. This data is not intended, and should not be used, for purposes that discriminate against, exploit, surveil, or otherwise harm individuals or vulnerable populations; users are expected to apply it responsibly, assess the risks of their own analyses (particularly when combining it with other datasets) and are solely responsible for how they use it.

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